To be sold by

weight

Licensed Coal Meter and Weigher'

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CAP. XXII.

A By-law relating to Coal, Culm, Coke, and to Coal Meters and Weighers.

BE it enacted by the City Council of the City

of Charlottetown as follows :—

1. All coal, culm, and coke, which shall be sold from or out of any vessel, lighter or other craft, in the port of Charlottetown, or from any wharf, warehouse, manufactory, yard, or other place within the city shall be sold by weight and not by measure; and any personItransgressing this clause shall be subject to the penalties of this Bylaw.

2. The City Council shall, from time to time, license one or more fit and proper person or persons residing in this city—who may be styled Coal Meters and \Neighers—for the period of one year from the date of each license, whose duty it shall be to weigh all such coal as shall be imported, and all culm and coke which may be imported into or manufactured and sold in the said city and port, with any and all other articles as shall be required of them to be weighed ; and the duty to be paid for such license shall be sixteen dollars yearly ; and any person obtaining such license, who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to perform the duties pertaining to his office, without just cause, shall be subject to the penalties of this By—law.

I 3. Every person who shall be licensed as such Coal Meter and VVeigher, before he be permitted to act as such, shall take and subscribe